Autumn Struggle, historically one of Taiwan's two major annual labour protests alongside May Day, took place on 30 November. In recent years, however, Autumn Struggle has become known for its drift toward the KMT, as reflective of the influence of the pro-unification left within Taiwanese labour circles. This was again the case this year, with KMT chair Cheng Li-wun (鄭麗文) making an appearance at Autumn Struggle.
In particular, the demonstration began outside the legislature, proceeded (…)

ACR condemns Trump's imperialist attack on Venezuela
Trump has just declared military control of all air space above and around Venezuela. He has defined Venezuelan drug dealers' boats bringing drugs to the USA as ‘terrorists'. Trump has grotesquely labelled this as dangerous threat to the American people and has invoked an imaginary military conflict to bomb and kill on sight. Apart from breaking all forms of national and international law this offensive is aimed at regime change in (…)

Jakarta – The North Sumatra chapter of the Indonesian Forum for the Environment (Wahana Lingkungan Hidup Indonesia, Walhi) believes the flash floods that have hit several areas recently were not solely the result of extreme weather.
Walhi North Sumatra Executive Director Rianda Purba said the floods were also the result of massive forest destruction and land conversion. According to Walhi's records, over the past 10 years 2,000 hectares of forest in North Sumatra have been damaged.
“The (…)

Rachel Reeves's budget is business as usual, or rather, slightly worse than that argues Jamie Gough.
Its base is her austerity budget of a year ago. It maintains the spending plans of that budget but with cuts in overall spending towards the end of the four year period. The main increases in spending is on abolishing the two-child cap on child benefit, rightly reviled because of its massive creation of child poverty. A limited backtrack on winter fuel allowance for the elderly was (…)

As the dust settles after COP30 in Belém, the scale of the failure becomes impossible to ignore. The world is on a path toward catastrophic warming, ecological systems are collapsing, and millions across the Global South face annihilation, not in the distant future, but today. The world's political and economic elites arrived in the Amazon to negotiate when the 1.5°C target had already slipped out of reach, and they left with little more than symbolic gestures. No binding emissions cuts. No (…)